Celebrities use 2026 Golden Globes red carpet to voice opposition to ICE

83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals - Source: Getty
Mark Ruffalo and Sunrise Coigney attend the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards (Source: Getty)

Several celebrities at the 2026 Golden Globes used the red carpet to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by wearing symbolic black-and-white pins. The pins honored Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by ICE agents during an incident on January 7.

The event, which was held on January 11, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, saw Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes, and Natasha Lyonne displaying their pins on the red carpet. Jean Smart and Ariana Grande wore them inside the venue. The pins displayed slogans like “BE GOOD” and “ICE OUT,” signalling opposition to the ICE actions.

Good was a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman and a mother of three who had just moved to the city. She was also a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist. The pins also paid a tribute to Keith Porter, a father of two, who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve 2025.

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Celebrities protest against ICE at 2026 Golden Globes red carpet

Several celebrities at the 2026 Golden Globes red carpet have made headlines as they protested against ICE by wearing black-and-white pins. These symbols honored Renee Good, killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis and Keith Porter, fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, actor Mark Ruffalo said he finds it difficult to concentrate on the Golden Globes 2026 amid the current state of the world. He said:

“We’ve got, literally, storm troopers running around terrorizing, and as much as I love all this, I don’t know if I can pretend like this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says the laws of the world don’t apply to him and we can rely on his morality, but he has no morality, so where does that leave us? Where does that leave the world?”
2026 Golden Globes - Source: Getty
2026 Golden Globes - Source: Getty

While Wanda Sykes told Variety:

“Of course this is for the mother who was murdered by an ICE agent, and it’s really sad. I know people are out marching and all today, and we need to speak up. We need to be out there and shut this rogue government down, because it’s just awful what they’re doing to people.”

When Jean Smart was asked about filming the upcoming fifth and final season of the show by Entertainment Tonight at the 2026 Golden Globes, she said that things were “good” but added that the experience was “a little bit overshadowed with what’s going on in our country.”

Nelini Stamp of Working Families Power, and one of the organizers for the anti-ICE pins, said in a statement:

“We need every part of civil society, society to speak up. We need our artists. We need our entertainers. We need the folks who reflect society.”

According to a report in Page Six, the ACLU has endorsed the #BeGood campaign associated with the 2026 Golden Globes protests against ICE. They were organized by entertainment industry professionals alongside groups like the Domestic Workers Alliance, Working Families Power, MoveOn, among others.

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Edited by Aastha Dass